Fireside Poems

First Edition, First Printing (1930). Illustrated with 5 color plates (complete) by Lois Lenski, as well as black & white vignettes throughout; illustrated endpapers. Near fine in original green cloth, stamped in purple, and very good plus illustrated dust jacket with a restored closed tear on the back, almost imperceptible. Binding square and tight, text clean and bright. This wonderful work includes poems by Hilaire Belloc, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rosetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Wordsworth, etc. Very scarce in dust jacket. Quarto. 8 x 10 in. x + [ii], 147 + [1] pp. An absolutely beautiful copy, one of the best we've seen in some time.